No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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History is not was, it is.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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